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British Intelligence: Probate Records

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Probate records — court records that deal with the distribution of a deceased person’s estate — provide a lot of good genealogical information, such as a date of death, the names of surviving relatives and insight into the family’s economic status. The English and Welsh kept two types of probate records: wills and administrations (also View Website VIP Subscription

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A contributing editor for Family Tree Magazine, Rick Crume specializes in online research, genealogy software, DNA testing and British genealogy.

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